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' ROTARY PERFECTING PRESS. No.170,54-Z. Patented Nov.30, 1875.

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Patent-ed Nov. 30 18 75.

li ifizesses N. EETERS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPN early at a ca iber-n Bea-kno n thattLJOSEPH. L. FIRM, of

the city, county and Sta-te of New York, have invented .certainv new; and useful Improvenient's in"Ro'tary Perfecting-Presses; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, ref: erence being had tojthe f accompanying draw.- ing, which forms part of this specification.

Theinvention has reference to'rotary print-- ing presses, and more. particularly to rotary pertecting-presses- The invention consists, in a certain combination of a transversely-divided paper-supplycylinder or roll, forming two or' more inde-, pendentsupply cylindersor rolls, and serving to feed two or ,more independent webs, side by side, and a single"form-cylinderand single ,irepression-cylinder constructed to simultaneously print saidwebs'as they pass from the supply cylinders or rolls to or between said form. and impressioncylinders. The invention also consists in a combination of one or more single formrcylinders with annular; bearings between duplicate forms can ried' by each of. said cylinders, and oneyor more'single impression-cylinders having like inttllmediate annular bearings for operation, in con binationwith -the intermediate annular bearings of the form-cylinders and lower suppoiting'rollers, whereby the form and impression cylinders, when constructed to print in duplicates or series arranged side by side throughout. the length of said cylinders, are intermediately supported. the one by the other, andare prevented from springing.

Figure .1 represents aplan of a rotary print-- ing-pr'ess in part in accordance'with the invention, and constructed to simultaneously print on both or opposite sides of four independent webs of paper. Fig. 2 is a front or one-end View of the same; Fig. 3, a side View thereof; Fig. 4, a vertical section on the irregular line a; a2, and Fig. 5 a further Vertical section on the line 3 3 Ais a duplicate ibrm-cylinder-that is a cylinder carrying two independent circular forms, f f, arranged side by side in the length Nit W YORK, N. Y.,-Assrenoe or, one-HALF HIS RIGHT/TO coTTnntL AND NATHAN BABGOGK, OF'WESTERLY, R. I.

i a ,spec ficat omforminggpart of, Letters Patent N o.'170,542, dated N ovmber 30, 1875; application filed September 28,1875.

CASE D.

of said cylinder, but separated by an inter! mediate annular bearing or ring, a. This duplicate form-cylinder is arranged to work in connection with an upper duplicate impression-cylinder, B, and a lower duplicate impression-cylinder, B both of which have their impression-surfaces g g arranged to. correspond with the forms'ot" the cylinder A, and

w the duplicate impression-surfaces of which are separatedby annular bearings or rings .b,,ar-

ranged so that they bear or work in contact v with the intermediate ring or bearing aof the form cylinder A. By, this construction the form and. impression cylinders are supported intermediately of their length, the one bythe other, and prevented from springing or-yield ing sufficiently to interfere with the impression, and are thus held in their .proper positions independently of the boxesin the frame of the press, and the amount of strain that would otherwise fall upon such long cylinders isavoided. A roller, 8, which should be adjustable up. or down, is arranged underthe in termediate hearing I) of the lower impressioncylinder B to give a solid intermediate lower hearing .or rest to said cylinder. Such con struction and intermediate support of the form and impression cylinders allows of an increased-number of impressions being simultaneously made from or by the same cylinders on independent webs, as will be hereinafter more fully explained, and by increasing the number of intermediate bearings a, b and roll er-supports s the number of form and iinpression surfaces, lying side by side throughout the length ofsaid cylinders, may be increased so as to act upon a still greater number of webs simultaneously. At'the opposite end of the press is'a similarly-arranged series of cylinders with duplicate form and impression surfaces f g separated by intermediate bearing-rings a I), also a lower intermediate adjust-able supporting-roller, s, all for. action in relation with each other, as hereinbefore described with reference to the first series of but in this last or opposite series of cylinders the upper and lower cylinders A A are both 2 h i i y 110,542 I I P 1 I;

y m st th n ermed ate y i Q ri-L impr ssi e 161 sei'eral gcylinders throughout the two diatebearing rings or surfaces a bot theforin and impression cylinders may be kept free i fromjbeing smeared and from smearing with ink the margins of the paper while the imprejssions are beingtaiken. Each series of cylfnd'ers AB; B and; A A? B'rhavethe paper supplied-"to them in independent webs, corresponding, as regardsnuim her, with thenui'nber of fibrin-surfaces in thewidthofi the press. 1 These separate webs of paper, whiclnjfor the press shown in the draw ingyarefonr ininninbenare taken from supply: cylinders or-rolls atopposite ends of the i press; Each oftheseroll's is cut 101: divided transversely, so as to form two orf nore independent supply cylinders; orrol-ls correspond? ing with the number of webs tobe fedtsidehy side fromfthe same end of" the "press, to the single form-cylinder A or A', a nd singl'e impression-cylind'er B or B on such end'fof the press. This transversely-divided constrnction of ithe supply-rolls is only shownylatthe right hand oiFigml, inywhich E E are independent dependent webs sideby side to theform-cyi inderAand impressioncylinderBg"butitisde: signed'that thepaper-supply cylinders or rolls EffE' 'jatthe other end'jof the pressfor snpplying independent webs to theformcylinder A and? impression-cylinder1B shoul'd zi be similarly separated and independent one of; the other,

and in any further reference to the rolls E" E inthis specification said rolls E E will be considered as independent of each other-.j This transverse division onconstruction of" the pepensnpply rolls, so as to form virtually-in dependent rollsjforfeeding independent webs side byside to a single form-cylinder and-single impression-cylinder constructed to permit two websat a tiine, is important, inasmuch as provision is thereby made for any difference inj d ia meter of the rolls ofpaper, or dampness of'the latterfior tension of the webs,,and"for adjnstingthe rolls longitudinally to make the paper properly margin with the forms.

r zr ilsn am mi properly directthe webs to n two webs passingiin ,eeln sa id cylindjersi wsite side or face. Whiletwowebs of paper cylinder A and impression-cylinder B ,*andf Y i from thence: to or between {the iinpression cyl we 1 nth-rough thepressg, 1 Tclaiine-M i h Q 1; The combination, otfitjwos, or noi pend nt pap -S pp y ey i i minor, ranged sideby side in} ani a er y n e l nes, be ween w t ni mp i ss ec l l p one or more n termed te supporting-rollers, 18] s, with; the, inte cylinders n the operationof theipressthe indepe (1- w hei I01 LE1" 1 p W bm n h h p, ressiomcylfinder B, which printsitheone orQnpper Isideoflthe y l i e h e n ibr conrseto the i pression-cylinder Band forms cylinder A, betweei whichljthey pnssjand re; 11 ceive animpression on flieir under?" 'or 3 joppo- Said webs then pass on passing in one direction throng-hthe pressereii thusbeing printedon both sides,other twot webs, drawnfromct-he rolls E E4, arepessing in a reverse direction,first between the form i i inder B and the; forn -cylinder AX, thus} also pr ing u e nd sebg sarw h 0 their sides orfaces, i J 1 h h Inthis wa ,fo rwebs or rolls o f pepe arle s t e us y lnri uted oii. theiropn or faces by;only,three, for like number 1 oftinip jession- 2, AfQ fWWli d' with I one orc more in ranged. annularbearing p s nuflwesfor mm the other,:essentia;llyiishe h i, h

h c mb n ti nof qe ib m annularbearingscor-b of theformfandirn h s o y er ubstanti y? q fied i y l g JOSEBH; w Witnesses: h p y HENRY T, Bnown, MICHAEL RYAN. 

